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Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-07-29
THE STATE FAIR.

The Oregon state fair of 1887
promises, we ale assured by the
managers, to be one of the most inter
esting and successful in the history
of the State Agricultural Society. 1t
will begin on the 18th of September
and continue through the week follow
ing that date. It is certainly good
in lication to see liberal premiums
offered for special exhibits of cereals,
grasses and vegetables, while some
effort is evidently being made TO
arouse the long slumbering interest
that used to make the plowing match
at the fair thing for the eager COM
potion of farmers boys. Another en-
couraging feature is the tearing down
of the old weather-beatt booths,
where games of chance and huckstering
were carried on for many years in a
way that robbed the unsophisticated
country boy of his cash, and taught
him his first lesson in gambling.
But few booths will be rented upon
the fair grounds this year, it is said, and
these will be restricted to legitimate
uses.
AS usual, however, the races will be
the prime feature of the fair and will
secure the highest premiums and draw
the biggest crowd. A number Of
horses are already in training. There
is no question but this feature of the
fair is necessary TO its success, financial
and popular, and when the manage
ment give the attention that is due te
the agricultural part of the exhibit
that is an indispensable feature tc
an agricultural and industrial fair
the farming public will have less com
plaint to make of the way the thing i:
managed and will show greater
desire to aid it by their presence ano
patronage than has been the case fol
some years The society has fol
several. years been having the hare
experience of living down the bat
reputation acquired by Indifferent ant
careless management extending ovel
period Of dozen or more years 1T
honest effort in this direction ar
worthy of encouragement and to tn
extent that the exhibit this fall deser
yes patronage we hope that it vii
receive it.-Telegram.
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-07-29
LIGHTS and SH4DOUS.

Life to some men is as shady as the
brooklet's water coursing down through
the dismal swamp. The existence of
others is as bright as the apex of Mt.
Tacoma on Sunday morning in eaIly
springtime.
After seven years absence Roscoe
Conkling revisited Chicago about ten
days ago. People crowded about him
as they never did before, and hundreds
sat around all day with their mouths
open, anxiously waiting for his to
open.
When Mr.. Conkling was last in
Chicago he was senator; now he is
lawyer. Then he went to the wild
and windy metropolis of the prairies
and the lakes as the leader and the
spokesman Of the third term move
ment,an unparalleled and in every way
most remarkable incident IN Ameri-
can politics; he went this time to make
the closing argument in case about
some waxed paper. Then he cooly
sucked a lemon while the men tried to
haul him down, and, when order had
returned, celebrated the fame of the
conquering general of the civil war in
the most audacious bit Of doggerel ever
uttered on such an occasion. Now he
rises to defend in mrsty legal terms
the patent RIG ghts of The Hammelschlag
manufacturing company. Now, with
his retainer in his pocket and his fee
pledged, his triumph cannot be affected
by the decision. Before he got 306
votes and went home beaten man,
destined to be beaten a year later and
driven from political life
But what boots it? Who bear the
palm of the victory Of 1880?
The. cold sods have been heaped upon
the tomb of the chief principals In the
presidential campaign of that year
Garfield is dead and. Grant is dead,
Hancock is dead and Arthur is dead
Blaine has been beaten again and
Windon delivered temperance lect
ure down in Connecticut the other day
Edmunds is no more of a presidential
quantity than the man in the moon
Elihn b. Washburne, who gave his OLD
townsman, Grant, the Brutus thrust, is
utterly lost to public view. There i:
left only single player in thaIstrange
| ly stated game who has not had his
second inning, John Sherman is his
name, and he seems bent on defeating
himself before the next contest begins
But Conkling, the first of all the lot
to be overwhelmed, is growing gray
and hearty on 100000 year, freed
from the duties and Yexations of polit
ical place, while still in the enjoyment
of the nations curious and watchful
interest. 1t is COnkling's existence
that's as bright as the apex Of Mount
Tacoma on sunny morning In early
springtime.-Tacoma News
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-07-29

TIE early triumph of the Gladstone
party in England may be expected.
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-07-29


THE New York World is engaged
i'll the seemingly pleasant task to
prove that it will be impossible to
elect Democratic president in 1888.
The erratic course Of the Sun had
prepared the Democracy of the country
for its treacherous course in 1880 and
in 1884; but better things were ex
pected Of Mr.. Pulitzer and the World
The Sun has been steadily declining il
influence and circulation eyer since it,
unwarranted and unjustiiable assault
on Gen. Hancock and in the Ian
guage of Patrick Henry the Worl'
may profit by its example.
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-07-29
CORRUPTION IN C1N4DI.


The Canadians are beginning to re
mark, with all the air of persons who
make discovery, that the action OF
their Legislature is matter of direct
pecun:arv value s'to Il class whose num-
bers are not great, whose motives are
in common, whose mcans are large and
who are impelled to close discipline
and to an aggressive interference with
politics. This is the language applied
to those recipients of taxation known
as protected interests; Canada has only
begun yet TO feel the influence of the
subsidized monopclies which put tht M
selves .ih /. close and natSral alliance
with other favored interests. 1t will
not be long before she viii be able to
know from experience that every legis-
latlve tool of the Canadian Pacific
railroad is also stanch protectionist
and confederate t. Of land grtbbers. They
all hunt together in one pack as surely
and by virtue of as true an instinct as
the birds and beasts of prey Oppos ed
to these class interests, Canada finds,
is the great body of the people, whose
interests and whose rights are of ntces-
sity sacrificed for Tie profit of the
smoli and compact minority.
Quite SO; but the same thing had
been going on for twenty five years un-
der Canada's eyes just across the Dor
der She embarked in the protection
and subsidy business with her eyes
wide open. And now she evinces a
mild surprise TO find that men whose
money is involved IN legislation will
spend money to influence legislation; in
other words, that, having conferred on a
man the privilege of having his neigh
boris pocket picked of money that the
neighbor worked for, and handed ovel
to himself who did not work for it
Canada is now astonished to discover
that she has cultivated a new code of
political morals whose first command
ment thou shalt give briLes The prt
tected manufacturers of the Dominion
openly furnished the money to carr,
the last Nova Scotian elections and
carried them, just as the American
Iron and Steel Association furnished
the money and an agent to spend it
to defeat Morrison of Illinois at TIL,
last election; and they defeated him
When the law makes a man.
fortune or the amount of his profit
dependent on legislation it is natura
and inevitable that he shall protec
both by all the means IN his power
That system produces the whisky ant
Standard oil pools, the railway monop
olies and iron and coal pools, all brib
ing away right and left, the yer.
breath of life in their bodies a breatl
of bribery; and so they make way 70
the Jako Sharps aud for "boodlc" il
Legislature and city council, uni
politics becomes a synonym for cor
ruption. The law ''thou shalt steal
cannot be enacted by statute withon
evil coming of it. And subsidy an,
protection would make men corrupt
if they did not find them Sex
aminer
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-07-29
orr wAsHISGroN LETTER.

The salutary effects of the lessons
taught by the recent exposure of the
rascalit:es of Bacon in the Patent
OHces, and Harvey in the Treasury,
are perceptible in many ways. The
heads OF Bureaus are more diligent
and vigilent as well as exacting regard
ing the methods of conducting the
public business, and the clerks
appreciate the state CT affairs by in
creased activity and thoroughness in
performing their allotted tasks. In
all the Departments there is an i'll
concealed feeling of apprehension, not
to say suspense, as to what day may
bring forth, and your correspondent
feels safe in predicting that the end
is not yet-that others in high places
are covering in abject fear of an I'M
partial investigation of their doings
realizing that the result would be
ruinous to them. l have good reason
to believe that general but quiet
examination of the accounts of all
disbursing officers is being made by
direction of no less an authority than
the President himself.
Postmaster General Villas wa:
partly engaged this week in the much
needed work of revising the posta
regulations, which have not beer
amended since 1877. The Postmaster
General also found time to reply, il
the negative to the letter Of the posta
clerks asking permission to hold
convention to discuss the needs of the
service, and advising them that the
proper way to secure those aims and
ends would be to make such suggestion:
to the Department as might occur te
them in the practical performance o.
their duties.
Up to the present this month, Gov
ernment receipts amount to about sll,
100000, and the expenditures, in
elusive of s12,ooO,00O, in pensions
to SlS,561, ,l02, making an enormous
excess of disbursements over receipts
It is estimated that the receipts TO
the balsnce of the month will be 81,
100000 dav, and that the expend
itures will be fully es large. The tota
amount of bonds redeemed under th,
call, which matured July 1st is SIS,
090, go, leaving still outstanding O.
the call 81, ,626, ,656, the whole amount
Of called bonds outstanding is $1,000,
$50. At present the Treasury finds
itself unable to supply the heavy
demand for notes of small denomina
tions, but orders have been issued t.
do so as soon as practicable.
To prove that President Cleveland,
who has probably received more abuse
and adverse criticism from the soldiers
than any of his predecessors, is really
their best friend, having done better
by them than any other President, 1t
is only necessary to refer to the records
of the Pension Office. During the
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-07-29

A THOROUGH and honest investiga-
ton of all the affairs of the general
government has been undertaken, and
frauds are to be overhauled and rene
died in the interest of the people. 1t
is Mr.. Clevelaud's endeavor to protect
the tights of the people that has en-
deared him to them.
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-07-29
Sheriff Sale.

nj OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT BY VIRTUE
IN of a warrant issued out of the County ourt
of the state of Oregon in and for Douglas count
and 60 me directed commanding me to levy upon
the goods and chattels of the delinquent tax payers
named the delinquent roll for said ounty Tor
the wear 1886, thereto attached and none be found
then upon the real property rs set forth and de-
scribed in said delinquent tax roll or so much there
of as shall be fficient to satisfy the amount OF
taxes charged therein together with cost and eN-
pcnses have duly levied upon the following de-
-r:hcl ce parcel of land as set forth IN said
tax FOIL tc,hagng Nv. f. Owens lying and being
in Douglas codnv state of Oregon, assessed to the
said W. F. Owens and described follows, to wit:
of Lots ard Section p the w OF the
N w Section (26) Lots and 8, See, (22) all in
chains north of corner of See. B. -, % and 26 Town
81 r W thence East chains thence north 81. 10
claims thence south to south boundary of the John
Lesser donation claim thence West chains thence
south %. 40 chains to the place of beginning also
that p ortion of the donation claim of Thomas Owens
| and wife in said TOWNSHIP. and range which lies
| south of the Coos Bay Wagon Road also all that
portion of the donation claim of w. X. Stark in said
| township and range which lies south Of the Coos
| Bay wagon road containing 50l.S0 acres more or
| less and in pursua nee thereof | will
TUESDAY, AUGUST ;, 1887
at O'Clock D. H. Of said day, sell at public auction
at the court house door in said state and county to
the highest bidder for cash in hand, the above de-
scrbed land and premises to satisfy the sum Of
$500 10 the amount of delinquent tax against W. +.
Owens fJr said county for the year 1885, together
| with the cost and accrun: cost.
July ], 1887. G. AGEE,
Sheriff,
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-07-29

By THE WAY, it will stand repeating
that Douglas county is happy. pros
porous and contented, likewise the
state of Oregon and the United States
of America, and all are enjoying the
rich blessings of Democratic admins
tration
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-03-13
Soap signs.

The soap artist is on his regular
trip through the State. He is the
man who takes a piece of soap and
makes letters on a pane of glass, or
on a saloon mirror, and he charges
a good price for his work, and the
man who gets it done supposes he
is getting a good advertisement.
We have nothing against the soap
man, but we have a knowledge that
his advertisement does not go out
and hunt up people. The soap
mans artistic work is seen only by
those who are already looking at
the goods advertised. Signs,
whether of soap or of paint and oil,
are. and can be only short range in
their effects, while the newspaper
sweeps regiments of buyers and at
any distance.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-03-13
ALL SORTS.

Wizard Ola Geo. Thaxter's.
Paris was visited by an earth
quake yesterday.
The stage fare to Genoa will be
$1.50 after today.
The Coronet and Dauntless
sailed from New York for Queens
town yesterday.
The Sheriff is after the boys
who throw stones at windows by
means of sling shets.
-FoUND-A portion of a gold
X. of l.. emblem. The owner can
recover property by calling at this
Office and paying for this advertise
ment.
-Trenmor Collins term Of II. S.
District Attorney expired March
End. Clayton Belknap, a brother
of Judge Belknap, is a candidate
for the place.
The article on the State Prison
in this mornings APPEAL will be
interesting reading for the econ
omy aad reform" crowd
"A correspondent writes to the
APPEAL on a postal card asking
what the LEGISLATURE has dene for
the State. The APPEAL is unable
to answer this pointed query.
The extraordinary popularity
Of Ayers Cherry Pectoral is the
natural result Of its use by intelli-
gent people for over forty years.
1t has indisputably proven itself
the very best known specific for all
colds, cough, and pulmonary COM
plants.
The undersigned begs to notify
the public that he is prepared to
execute portraits of all sizes, in
oil, crayon, ETC., in the most artistic
manner, and at prices to suit the
times. Everybody is invited to
Call and examine samples of his
work at his studio in Marston' 8
Photograph Gallery.
j. B. MONACO.
Artist
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-03-13
A NEW OVERLAND LINE.
What the Burlington Is Doing in
Nevada


| A. Maute, Nevada State Senator
from Nye county aud proprietor Of
the Belmont Courier Is iu San
Francisco. In conversation with a
Chronicle reporter, Wednesday, Mr..
Maute SAID that there has been a
great deal of railroad talk In his
section of la,e. Two surveys, sup
| posed to have been maze for the
| Chicago, Burii,,gton aud Quincy
Railroad Company, have been run
from Salt Lake Guy westward
tnrOugh Nevaua, ana rough line
has been stretched across tue Ser
Tas Into California aud ON TO San
FrancIsc0, BY the secuLd survey
Belmont is brought WITHIN Is miles
OF the proposed route, which rams
Soutueaaterly thfuu.h the counties
" hite Plue, EsmeraIaa and Nye.
Mr.. Maute says that ii the road
Is CONSTRUCTED on this line, the Eu-
reka and Pailsade, aud the Nevada
Central railways. Que running north
ward from Eureka and the other
from Ausun to connections with
the Central Pacific, will probably
be extended southwark to connect
with the proposed railway. He
thinks there can be no doubt of the
earnestness of the company In the
matter, as it has been making It's
arrangements on solid and elab-
crate scale. The counties of White
Pine, Lincoln, Nye and Esmeralda
have agreed to grant the new rail-
way exemption from taxes for a
term of fifteen years III order to en-
courage its construction. The resi-
dents of that part of Neva have
great hopes for the future of their
section In the event of the con-
straction of the road, as it will
greatly develop the mining indus
try there, admitting of the cheap
transportation of Iow-grade ores.
The line will strike the Sierras
near Soda Springs, and its advance
toward the center of California
will be made through Mono county.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-03-13
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEAR
ANCE
a Mans Turns up After Being
Lost Several Months.

a Mans Turns up After Being
Lost Several Months.
Last Fall, young man named
Anderson, who was working on a
ranch IN Carson Valley, suddenly
disappeared and, although an ex-
haustive search was made for him,
no trace of his whereabouts could
be discovered.
When last seen, he was working
near a hay baler. He was first
missed at the dinner table but no
special anxiety was felt as it was
supposed that he had laid down
through sickness. His disappear
ance was a nine days talk, and it
was finally surmised that he had
left the country on account of a
love affair.
Day-before-yesterday however he
turned up in Virginia City. Mr..
William Mooney, the stable man
purchased load of alfalfa hay, in
bales, of the rancher on whose
place Anderson had been missed.
He went to open one of the bales,
when he found inside, the body of
Anderson, in good state of pres
ervation.
1t is now rumored that Anderson
who was working at the machine
fell in and the helpers about the
spot were too busy talking politics,
to notice him, and so he was tied
up along with the balance Of the
hay. He evidently died Of suffoca-
ton and made no sign. Mr.. Moon
ey has carefully examined the rest
of the hay but has found no more
bodies. The remains were given a
christian burial and the same style
of hay IL now selling for SIS ton.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-03-13
Home BENEFIT Life Association.

The Insurance paid by this COM
pany on account of the death of
our townsman Jerry Schooling.
He died on the Bird of Feb. last, his
proofs Of death were presented on
the 21st of Feb. and the amount
paid to his legal heirs on the 23rd
of Feb. 1887.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-03-13

Take Ayers Sarsparllla in the
Spring of the year to purify the
blood, invigorate the system, excite
the liver to action; and restore the
healthy tone and vigor of the whole
physical mechanism.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-03-13

-WANTED-A suite of two
or three furnished rooms near
the Capitol, for a gentleman and
his wife. Inquire at this office.
mr5tf
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-03-13
ventoried at the original cost
SOME LUDIcRoUs ITEMS.

| In the cells are mOeTleSS STOP
buckets made by cutting the tops
off lard and oil cans, also spittoens
made out of old tin can bottoms.
They are down as buckets and Gus
pidors." Some of the por-
tons of the cells which are
put portion of the buildings, are
down to swell the total. The blank
cts and sheets are WON out. The
reporter saw sheets full of holes
and torn clear in two, which had
been put down as new. An Ice
chest in the cellar put down at full
value was rotten. JEFF Work gave
it kick, and his foot went clear
through the rotten bottom. Old
cans of spices which had lost their
SAVIOR years ago were down at orig
inal cost. Old door screens, barely
able to hold together, dIlapiuated
wash tubs" made by saving whis-
key barrels in two, old pans and
kettles and the miscellaneous rag
tag and bob tail of regular old
junk shop were all down on the in
yentory at original cost. Maish
went over the armory. 1t was down
at 1920. Maish's inventory knocked
$500 off.
THE STABLES.
The reporter strolled into the
stables. Three horses, one mule
and mare, $780," was the way Bells
Inventory read. The mule he had
rated at 1925. A livery man had
appraised it at $50.
Two old carts and harnesses down
at $50 were reduced to $50 by the
State appraisers. One set of double
buggy harness put in at SIC by
Bell were reduced to $40 by the
State. One item in Bells report
read:
30 cords of trimmed and un-
trimed sagebrush $3.50.
This wood was cut by prisoners
and as their board is all down in
separate item, one is at loss to
see how the value of the wood is
figured SO high.
LOUD ITEM.
The reporter hunted up the q
barrels of sauer kraat, down on
Bells inventory at $32. When he
lifted the lid he fell back against
the wall. The kraut was all spoiled
and covered with thick scum. No
one about the place could touch it.
The cabbages were raised on the
place by prison labor, yet the kraut
was inventoried at $32. 1t was not
worth 10 cents.
Many of the items were run in to-
gether, several articles being lump
ed, so that the Committee find it
hard to get at. what Bell valued
them at, separately. Calves and
hogs were Jumped along with boars,
sows and ducks. The pigs were Of
the razor-backed breed, and looked
quaint and hungry. The roof of the
Prison has not been repaired for
long time and leaks in a dozen
places. These are merely a few
samples picked out at random by
the writer. There is hardly an
item in the whole inventory that
the Committee will not reduce from
30 to 20 per cent, except, perhaps,
the official furniture and some
postage stamps.
The buildings are very much out
of repair, some of the floors are
broken up and rotten, and the wood
work everywhere is badly dllipida-
ted. In his report, page 4. Bell
says:
Il report buildings and property,
in my charge, in good condition re-
quiring but little expenditure to
keep in order for the next 2 years
In closing his report he says:
The present outstanding indebt-
edness, is as follows:
Lyman ........... s GIT 90
Batterman ......... 19,140 81
Garrard ............ 832 Al
Total ................. 26, $50 SO